Region
If you change to another country/region, the contents on the “Discover” tab will be changed accordingly.
Please note that the app language is according to your phone settings, changing regions within the app would not affect the app language.
Notification Settings
The settings are enabled by default. You can choose to receive them or not.
Mobile Data Usage
If the “Stream” and / or “Download” options are disabled, the episodes would not be played or downloaded under mobile data.
Dark Theme
Enable it, you can enjoy the dark theme.
Siri Shortcuts
Tap the control option you want to add to Siri Shortcuts and record your personalized phrase. Then Siri can be activated to tell Castbox to run this shortcut.
Personalize Homepage
This is a premium feature. For the premium users, the homepage could be personalized.
Hide Similar Episodes
This is a premium feature. For the premium users, the similar episodes in the now playing page could be turned off.
Skip Episode
Turn it ON to allow the forward button on your external control (i.e. car) to skip to the next episode.
Automatically Delete from Playlist
Turn it ON, this Auto Delete setting will automatically remove finished episodes from your Playlist.
Skip Played Episodes
Turn it ON, this way, only unplayed episodes will appear in your “Next up”.
Headphone Remote
If it’s turned on, you can click the play / pause button once to play and pause the episode. Double click to fast forward by 30 seconds, and triple click to rewind by 10 seconds.
Auto Download
You can set this feature for each subscribed podcast separately. Also, there is a global setting for you to disable or enable this for all subscriptions. The “Advanced options” could be clicked, there you can set whether to enable this feature for all new subscriptions later, and whether to download the episodes in your Playlist automatically.
Automatically Delete Played Episodes
Turn it ON, and this setting will remove downloaded episodes after they finish playing in 1 hour.
OPML Import
1. Export your subscriptions from another app as an OPML file or find the OPML file in your local storage and then choose to open it in Castbox;
2. Also, you can import from Apple Podcasts, to make this, please make sure you enable Castbox to access your library in Apple Podcasts.
OPML Export
Tap it, and your OPML file will be downloaded and exported successfully.